On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 11:58 +0100, Joe wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Gaumer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > >On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 17:39 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 13:12 -0700, Eric Gaumer wrote: > >> > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 11:52 -0700, Gary wrote: > >> > [snip] > >> > > >> > Make sure discover1 is installed and that will automatically find the > >> > new card and load whatever kernel module it needs. > >> > >> discover is at v2.0.4, and depends on libdiscover2, while discover1 > >> is v1.7.3 and depends libdiscover1 and discover1-data. > >> > >> So, which is the preferred package? discover or discover1? > > > >If I understand correctly, discover was moved to discover1 so that > >discover2 could become the "default" discover. There was some discussion > >back in March on the debian-boot list about this transition. > > > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/03/msg04517.html > > > >The kicker is the comment about "drop discover1 when discover (2) > >provides all the features we need and works well" > > > >If discover1 is still available, does this mean discover2 is not yet > >providing the necessary features? > > > >My assumption is that discover _will_ be preferred over discover1 but > >it's unclear is this is the current situation. I would use discover1 > >until apt actually decides to replace it with discover. This seems to be > >the intent of the maintainers. > > > Excuse me, gentlemen? I run two Woodys, and neither have any version of > discover. The OP needs to know the Woody way. > -- > Joe >
That's funny... discover is in the stable mirrors. http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/discover -- Eric Gaumer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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